Unspoken Truths

♫Then you would know where you're coming from♫

Throughout history humanity has adapted its truth to cater for changing influences. For example the often quoted line in Leviticus: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination." is inconvenient for a church struggling in today's modern moral climate and it is forced to seek alternative interpretations in order to pursue a viable marketing strategy. Not that I am suggesting for one moment that homosexuality is actually a sin. Go back a couple of millennia or more and we find Greek society where attitudes to what we might today call gay sex were remarkably different and let's face facts; their gods were far more beguiling, engaging and, for my money, better looking. The Greeks make the increasingly unpopular Church of England look like amateurs, The Greeks really knew how to market a religion.

I shall not argue whether morality should or should not be constant and absolute but evidently in practice it is not. Was Romeo a paedophile? Was Ghandi? It's worth remembering the past when we are unshakably certain we are right.

We adjust the narrative on a personal level too. If we sleep with another's partner we might imagine that their previous coupling is over in all but name. We choose to believe this because sex is enjoyable... if you do it right and put a bit of effort in. Especially with someone new.

A few years down the line a love lost can become just a passing phase or even a mistake. If we focus on the bad times we can tell ourselves we are well out of it. We can choose to believe it was all a fantasy and they never really felt the same way about us that we did about them. We can choose what we anchor to. We can choose to remember the night she screamed you were: "a pathetic alcoholic with a tiny penis" then threw you out on the street. We can choose to believe she really meant it and the reason she never said sorry was because she wasn't and she didn't want you living there in the first place. We can choose. We do choose. I choose.

I Am Done - June 2019

Prompted after a conversation with my doctor that included the phrase "keep you alive like a vegetable".

Publications

These are listed in reverse chronological order of publishing. The dates in brackets are the dates the poems were written which I think are the more relevant dates.

The inside front cover of each publication introduces the theme of each booklet. Clicking on the links below will show you each introduction.

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Titles Surrealistic Forest February 2022 Identity September 2019 This Mating Game August 2019 Unspoken Truths March 2019 Freed From Greed October 2017 The Embarassment Of Youth December 1987 (Yes I'm being daring)
Yes I know is has two "r"s. How ironic. The Gender Delusion April 2016 The Preposterous Truth February 2016 Everything Has A Lifespan March 2016 Polonez Traumatic Sex Disorder April 2016

Filmpoems